# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 278
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5541 "2026-05-20T23:59:55Z")
Jeff “Lex Luthor” Bezos says Trump is smarter and has better ideas than he did in his first term, because he REALLY wants those NASA contracts. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mmbwiwrnku2y)** > > Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due." ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5542 "2026-05-21T02:30:42Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > My point was that it should give Congress and the Courts plenty of justification to use every legal avenue to put a stop to Trump’s criminal behavior. Forgive my despair for a moment… but every single day I keep thinking that something is going to happen. He’ll do or say something so egregious, outrageous, clearly and blatantly criminal that something has to give. And it just doesn’t. Over and over and over again. Every single day it’s something new. MAGA controls congress. Both houses. They do nothing but enable when it seems like they’re doing anything at all. The Supreme Court is clearly and unabashedly in his pocket for the most important issues. Checks and Balances are dead. He does something illegal. Lawsuits start to fly. But nothing changes. He just does another thing, and It’s like people throw their hands up and nothing changes because all of our attention goes to the new thing. I’ve long since given up the idea that he could be prosecuted in some way and be held accountable for the things that he’s done. It will not happen. Maybe people around him can be held accountable. But until people around him start going to jail for enabling his clearly criminal behavior, I don’t think there’s any chance of anything changing. And maybe not even then. Maybe if we get this so-called Blue Wave or Tsunami in November something might change. I have my doubts on that, particularly given some of the Court decisions that have came down regarding gerrymandering and redistricting. This 1.8 billion dollar slush fund for insurrectionists may or may not actually become an actual thing. But if it doesn’t, it’s not going to be because anyone actually prevented it. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5543 "2026-05-21T02:44:16Z")
Fox News poll says Trump sucks. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIy6YL0XEAAmNHb?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIy6YL0XEAAmNHb?format=jpg&name=900x900) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5544 "2026-05-21T02:53:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Things will happen maybe for the best, hopefully for the best, but I believe for the best, but things will happen that you can’t even imagine and it’s going to be very exciting, but the way that’s going to happen is through thinking big. Nothing great was ever built. Think of that. Nothing great was ever built without the word momentum at your side.” I really hate those refrigerator magnet madlibs. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Civilized society functions because people obey laws. I note you said civilized society. That’s the rub. > [@Jihi](#): > > He’ll do or say something so egregious, outrageous, clearly and blatantly criminal that something has to give. He instigated an insurrection and faced no punishment even though the insurrection failed. > [@Jihi](#): > > But until people around him start going to jail for enabling his clearly criminal behavior, I don’t think there’s any chance of anything changing. People have been going to jail for just that. Yet, nothing’s changing. > [@Jihi](#): > > Maybe if we get this so-called Blue Wave or Tsunami in November something might change. I’m hoping for both houses of congress to go blue. Then it will be possible for them to make their first substantive order of business impeachment and actual removal. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5545 "2026-05-21T03:34:16Z")
Holding @ 39% despite a year of grift, chaos, inflation, war, violation of duties, conbuggeration of separation of powers, egregious foreign policy, violation of fiduciary responsibilities et al, et al … gives hope to every tin pot populist wannabe monarch out there in the US political undergrowth. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5546 "2026-05-21T03:46:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fox News poll says Trump sucks. Doesn’t matter. Fox News polls have said he sucks since he started this term. Yes, it has dropped a bit recently, but again…it doesn’t matter. His Republican support is still overwhelmingly positive (83% was their last update). ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5547 "2026-05-21T04:06:42Z")
[Killer Kennedy fires another group of advisors.](https://www.aol.com/articles/rfk-jr-fires-leaders-charge-180105064.html) > [@](#): > > [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/05/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-arnold-schwarzenegger-gym/90086412007/) fired leaders of a federal advisory panel responsible for making health recommendations on preventative care to Americans. > > Letters were sent to at least two head members of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to notify them of their current appointment ending, effective immediately, an HHS official, who was unauthorized to speak publicly, confirmed to USA TODAY. > > The USPSTF has a major role in choosing what preventive health services will be covered by insurance plans at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act, such as cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted infections, mental health screenings and important medications. > > The firings come nearly a year after USPSTF members were notified by email an in-person meeting scheduled for July 10, 2025, was postponed, someone with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly [previously told USA TODAY](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/07/09/rfk-jr-hhs-postpones-meeting-health/84522983007/). [The felon wants to control every aspect of congress.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-demands-senate-parliamentarians-ouster-172257910.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) wants Senate Republicans to boot the upper chamber’s rules referee after security funding for his ballroom was nixed. > > Trump pointed his fury on Wednesday at Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who holds a nonpartisan role that dictates what can and cannot make it through the budget reconciliation process. > > Republicans are currently trying to ram through a $72 billion immigration enforcement funding package, but MacDonough over the weekend stripped out one of Trump’s major requests for $1 billion to, in part, pay for security enhancements to his colossal White House ballroom project. > > “Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of ‘Parliamentarian’ in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed, long ago, by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious Lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Dumocrats with an ‘iron fist,’” Trump said on Truth Social. > > “Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Dumocrats — So why has she not been replaced? There are many fair people who would be qualified for that vital job,” he continued. Son of a gun. The felon is back to multi-tasking. Ethnic prejudice and misogyny at the same time. But of course he wants her gone. She’s devoted her working life to rules. He’s spent his violating same. [That’s mighty white of…your workplace under the felon’s dream rule.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admin-tries-end-60-214235965.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration has proposed ending a long-standing federal civil rights requirement, which legal experts say will make it harder for employees to raise concerns about discrimination and may help make the American workplace whiter. > > Most companies are required to report their employee demographic data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination law in every single workplace across the country, thanks to a rule created in 1966. Collecting and sharing this data ensures that companies are complying with civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination based on protected characteristics like race or gender. > > The EEOC [proposed last week](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/05/16/former-officials-denounce-eeoc-plan-to-halt-workforce-data-collection/) to end the rule mandating such data collection, known as EEO-1. > > “The decision to no longer collect this data, I think, is part of a larger pattern of the federal government stepping back from its historic role of protecting workers and ensuring equal opportunity in the workplace,” said Amalea Smirniotopoulos, senior policy counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, a legal organization that advocates for equality. > > The rule promotes transparency, allows companies to analyze their own employment practices and helps the EEOC enforce the law. The data can also help individuals bolster their own discrimination claims. And the rationale? Why, of course, the rule itself is discrimination. Thus sayeth the ~~prophet~~ pofiteer. > [@](#): > > But now the federal government is arguing that collecting and publishing the data is a form of racial discrimination. > > “The Trump administration is trying to argue that just by collecting the data, you’re requiring people to make decisions about who to hire or promote based on race or gender,” Smirniotopoulos said. “And frankly that’s just not true.” [Some count on Jesus. He wants Jesus to count for him.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-preaches-rigged-election-rant-142455288.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) on Wednesday repeated his easily disprovable claim to have won [California](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/california)’s electoral votes as he suggested that a [Republican](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/republican) ex-reality television star running for mayor of [Los Angeles](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/los-angeles) could have trouble winning because of “dishonest” elections in the Golden State. > > Trump made the bizarre comments to reporters before boarding Air Force One en route to Connecticut and a planned commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. > > Asked about GOP mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, Trump said he’d like to see the former _The Hills_ star “do well” and called him “a character” and a “big MAGA person” before pivoting to unsubstantiated accusations about California’s elections. > > “if you have a rigged vote out there, that’s the problem. The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California. You have all the mail in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest,” he said. > > “If we had [Jesus Christ](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jesus-christ) come down and count the votes, I would have won California, because I do great with Hispanics, but it’s a rigged vote.” [Next time in Jerusalem?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-threatens-lead-second-164801779.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump says he wants to seize power in[Israel.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-blew-bizarre-pick-fix-143810718.html) > > The president, 79, was speaking to the press at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday ahead of his departure for Connecticut for a Coast Guard graduation ceremony when he gushed about his own approval ratings in Israel. > > “I’m right now at 99 percent in Israel,” he said. “I could run for Prime Minister, so maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel, run for Prime Minister. I had a poll this morning. [I’m 99 percent,](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admits-everyone-telling-him-171657013.html) so that’s good.” > > It’s not clear which poll Trump was referring to. For the record, nobody actually runs for prime minister. That’s not how their system works. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5548 "2026-05-21T05:03:42Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “If we had [Jesus Christ](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jesus-christ) come down and count the votes, I would have won California, because I do great with Hispanics, but it’s a rigged vote.” I realize this sound like the ravings of a madman, but it makes a lot more sense once you learn that the president of Hispanics for Trump is named Jesus Christ. (Just kidding) ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5549 "2026-05-21T05:05:57Z")
I suspect that Trump’s actions in Iran are largely to create opportunities for him to take lots of money with insider trading of oil. Think about it. Trump makes threatening statements toward Iran and the price of oil skyrockets. Then he talks like they are ready for a settlement and the price of oil dives. And repeat and repeat and repeat. Trump and his cronies are likely making hundreds of millions or billions by playing the oil markets. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5550 "2026-05-21T07:32:58Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > For the record, nobody actually runs for prime minister. That’s not how their system works. Also, my totally subjective feeling is that he’s a lot less popular here than he was a few months ago. Even people who, up until now, have not been very engaged in foreign politics (which is most Israelis) are starting to catch on that he’s an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5551 "2026-05-21T11:57:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m hoping for both houses of congress to go blue. Then it will be possible for them to make their first substantive order of business impeachment and actual removal. Only if the Democrats can agree on something and all pull in the same direction. Even with a majority in both houses, I do not see Democrats getting together and being effective. They will continue to sabotage and fight among themselves as history shows. At least they can temporarily slow down the Republican juggernaut. Until the Republicans take control of the election process itself. I wish I could be optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5552 "2026-05-21T12:43:49Z")
Vance is asked about trump’s blatant, nakedly corrupt insider trading. Gist of the question: “back when you campaigned for the Senate, you were against public officials trading stocks. How can you support all the insider trading trump is doing?” Vance’s non-answer answer was to ignore the question entirely and just criticize the way it was asked, in true trumpian fashion. I will say, he does it a little more smoothly than trump, who would have just said “that’s a very stupid question, and you’re a very stupid person”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/O36bz8j0eCo/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump Insider Trading Claims Shake Vance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O36bz8j0eCo) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5553 "2026-05-21T12:54:57Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > My point was that it should give Congress and the Courts plenty of justification to use every legal avenue to put a stop to Trump’s criminal behavior. Except that Congress has shown it’s not interested in putting a stop to Trump’s criminal behaviour, and the Courts have shown they’re powerless to put a stop to Trump’s criminal behaviour. So just start making a list of every crime he’s committed, and everyone else in power who have enabled those crimes, and hope that the US in general gets its head out of its ass sometime soon, and can then prosecute all those people. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5554 "2026-05-21T13:15:38Z")
Just as the stock market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent betting on rationality, the world of politics can remain corrupt longer than you can stay hopeful. But I still irrationally believe than many of them will pay in the end. Call it hopeful or delusional, but the alternative is too bleak to accept. President Ineptstein himself, though, I fear is the one who will get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5555 "2026-05-21T13:36:54Z")
“No hay mal que dure 100 años” (No evil lasts for 100 years) is a proverb we inherited from the Spanish, I think. Of course there is a corollary “Ni cuerpo que lo aguante” (Nor body that can withstand it). So all in all evil does not last forever and this particular one will not either, but it’s possible that our bodies will not be able to resist until this evil finally falls. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5556 "2026-05-21T13:44:50Z")
We also say “dentro de 100 años, todos calvos”. Calvo (bald headed) refers to the skull. Only the bones remain. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5557 "2026-05-21T16:07:11Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > President Ineptstein himself, though, I fear is the one who will get away with it. BW, what IS happening with the Epstein files, hmmm?? I guess we’re going to get the public reveal any ~~day, week, month~~ year now. Just a little Thursday morning (black) humor… 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5558 "2026-05-21T16:36:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > BW, what IS happening with the Epstein files, hmmm?? The people that have access to them are getting rich. Trump does not want them released. When you have the gold, you make the rules. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5559 "2026-05-21T17:37:17Z")
“In the long run, we are all dead.” - John Maynard Keynes ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5560 "2026-05-21T19:09:24Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “In the long run, we are all dead.” In the short run, it bothers the hell out of me when the bastards win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=277) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=279)